Stewart Watkiss @ watkissonline

I’m a husband, a blogger, a geek, a first aider, a Data Centre Manager, a programmer, a cook, a camper, and most importantly of all a dad to my two wonderful children!

I was born in West Yorkshire living in Clayton West, near Huddersfield. I moved away to The University of Hull (which was in Humberside when I started, but East Yorkshire by the time I graduated). After University I lived in Warwickshire and West Midlands, but now live in Redditch in Worcestershire (about half way between The Sauce factory and Cadbury’s chocolate factory).

Education and Work

I’ve studied between New York and London; and from Huddersfield to Hull (although not necessarily in that order).

I then leapt on the opportunity to test you. I asked if he’d been to one of the great universities, Oxford, Cambridge, or Hull.Well?You failed to spot that only two of those are great Universities.Swine!That’s right! Oxford’s a complete dump!Blackadder Goes Forth

I have a BTEC in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Electronics. I’m an IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert and reached LPIC (Linux Professional Institute Certification) level 2.

I’ve worked on all kinds of computers from small microprocessors to large IBM Mainframes, but it’s Linux that I like the best.

Websites

I have four of my own websites as well as a few others that I look after at work or leisure.

Technology and Computer based website focussing on the Linux Operating System and resources helpul for anyone working towards Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC). This includes a practice exam style quiz and Linux tutorials. The quiz runs on a quiz engine that I wrote using perl and a mysql database running on a Linux server.
It also includes a Linux and technology blog which is auto-updated from the watkissonline WordPress blog.
There is also a PenguinTutor Facebook page and you can get status updates by following PenguinTutor tweets on Twitter.

Email

You can contact me using the email form, or see below for the social networking sites I use.